The Stars Are Projectors

This song, to me, is clearly about God, religion, and how we interact with these concepts.

"In the last seconds of your life, they'll show you how, how they run this show, sure, they run it into the ground."

 This line pretty much kicks off by saying that if there is some sort of god or higher power, then he probably isn't a bubblegum-fairytale sort of guy. Because the unequivocal fact of life is that he lets our miserable lives all get run into the ground at the end.

"The stars in the sky are projectors yeah..... they want to be their own damn teacher."

 This line seems to be saying how people come up with religions. The "stars" hold the answers to so many of our questions about God and our purpose in this cosmos, yet rarely do people actually look at the universe and see what it has to tell us about our existence. Instead, so many people come up with some great hypothesis to life and then "look to the stars" to prove they are right.

"You've got the harder part..... I've got the harder heart."

 These lines seem to be a digression. It is almost as if the singer is admitting that he is a worse person than the person who he is speaking to. I interpret this to mean that he is basically saying that despite the earlier lines of this song, many religious people are truly better people because of their beliefs. 

"Right wing, left wing, chicken wing, its all about finding the easiest way through."

 This adds onto his previous digression. He is being sarcastic with the "chicken wing," saying that it really doesn't matter what the hell sort of path or belief we take, but we generally try to cope with our lives in the easiest way possible. God and religion are clearly primary ways of doing this.

"God is a woman... that is you."

 This line seems to me to show how we sort of just fit God into all these boxes that fit our needs and purposes, and eventually we end up thinking that we are God. At least that is my interpretation.

"Was there a need for creation.... Where do circles begin?"

 The ultimate question as to the existence of God. Where the hell did all this come from? We can explain seemingly everything in the universe with math and physics, and yet we still aren't sure how all of this came to be. Why does math work? Is creation hidden right in front of us, in the fabric of reality itself? These questions are just too massive for our mortal little minds to handle, which is why he equates it to the question of "where do circles begin?" We simply cannot comprehend why we are here, because every answer to one of these questions leads to another one, and we aren't omniscient enough to know all the answers.

Phew, I'm done. Just my interpretation. This is one of my favorite modest mouse songs :)